Mountains and Ice

Category: Nature

  • If Jackson Pollock was a photographer – #14

    I imagine one his photographs might look like this:    

  • Poem – Fragile

    Moving through empty space, living within the void at the mercy of science and gravity our feet hold firm to this planet, providing shelter, food, water and the fragile recipes for life.

  • How you can use your camera to get closer to Zen

    A short article Tricycle (The Buddhist Review) on photography and finding your zen, inner peace. https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/zen-photography/

  • Science – New Research Suggests Dark Energy Might be the Reason Time Runs Forward

    Perhaps travelling back in time will become part of our reality, if has not already happened. “It’s one of those things that we take for granted—time moves forward and never backward. But did you ever stop to wonder why it moves in one direction, as opposed to the other? The question continues to stump physicists.…

  • Science – Understanding A 10 Dimensional Universe

    A summary of the proposed 10-dimensional universe and theory suggests at each. Full article is here: https://futurism.com/understanding-10-dimensional-universe/ First dimension – length Second dimension – height Third dimension – depth Fourth dimension – time Fifth dimension – we would see a world slightly different from our own that would give us a means of measuring the…

  • Poem – Origins

    I watch an airplane across the evening sky, diminishing light as the sun is leaving. Still trees reach toward the heavens, as blackness envelops the landscape. Layers transform across the spectrum scattering particles reaching these human eyes. What is out there beyond the layers, beyond the limitations of distance and speed? Further I sink into…

  • If Jackson Pollock was a photographer – #13

    I imagine one his photographs might look like this:    

  • Poem – That Cabin in the Woods

    That cabin in the woods, nestled beneath second generation pine planted after the last logging, waits for our visit. Snow caught in tree-tops meanders through the winter sky covering the green roof in a smooth slope where acorns speed to the ground. Ravens ever present toward the open fields, near the old silo base, they…

  • Poem – Witnessing Time

    ​ Deep into the frozen land we venture. Holding hands with no words spoken. Miles away mountain shadows grow as the sun appears. Like old film stuttering and jumping we desperately hold to this place to this moment. Fading between gusts of wind we taste the other side the other world the other dimension some…

  • Snow Day and Coyotes

    New snow and we walked the nearby trail. Just the 3 of us through untouched paths and into the open fields. There Vinny found a cleared spot with a meal stored neatly, most likely part of a coyote homestead.

  • Photos – Winter Seas

    The following photos are from different days and times of Lake Superior along the North Shore.

  • If Jackson Pollock was a photographer – #12

    I imagine one his photographs might look like this:    

  • Poem – Everywhere

    The previous day bathed us in winter light as the sea sang us to sleep. Today we slowly become wet snow-people as the storms take over the landscape and we marvel at the beauty everywhere.

  • Poem – A Visit

    Just a few hours after arriving we were visited by the guardians of the north shore… With fresh snow 4 to 6 inches deep we cleared a trail into the woods. Waking that morning, the Aussies were unsettled and more vocal than normal. Following the path, we crossed that of a wolf visiting overnight.

  • Poem – Solitude

    A red cabin in the woods beneath the pine trees sagging from the winter snow, is all I need for solitude.